11,046 results
1975ref. 150678N.p.: N.p. 1975. Vintage reference photograph of François Truffaut and Isabelle Adjani on the set of the 1975 film. Based on the diaries of Adele Hugo youngest daughter of French writer Victor Hugo. Adele Hugo's Isababelle Adjani romantic obsession with the indifferent British officer Lieutenant Pinson Bruce Robinson leads her to follow him to Halifax and eventually succumb to madness and despair. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for Adjani at age 20 making her the youngest nominee for the award at the time. Set in Halifax Nova Scotia shot on location in Senegal and Channel Islands. 12 x 9.5 inches. Light soiling in margin else Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1942ref. 159171Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1942. Vintage reference photograph from the 1942 film. With mimeo snipe on the verso. A 1942 film musical with a somewhat controversial trajectory. Seven years after its release Hungarian playwright and concentration camp survivor Ferenc Herczeg sued MGM for plagiarizing his 1903 play "Seven Sisters." Paramount legally adapted the play into a film in 1915. However during the 1941 production of "Seven Sweethearts" Herczeg was imprisoned within a Nazi concentration camp. Subsequently he only learned of the film's existence years after his release. The suit settled out of court for a substantial sum of money. Shot on location in Los Angeles. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Warner Brothers unknown books
1970ref. 161703N.p.: Grove Press 1970. Six vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 film. Five photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. A pair of filmmakers in hopes of raising money to shoot a documentary on Lenny Bruce decide to meet that goal by shooting pornographic films with runaway flower kids in Greenwich Village over a weekend. Aspects of cinema verite mixed with sexploitation with an early appearance by actress Joy Bang and a cameo by Robert Altman in the same year he directed MASH. Shot on location in New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with some faint creasing edgewear and one with a wax pencil annotation on the recto. Grove Press unknown books
1952ref. 150381N.p.: N.p. 1952. Vintage reference photograph of director Fred Zinnemann and assistant director Emmett Emerson on the set of the 1952 film. A town marshal faces off against three vengeful killers on the eve of his wedding. Nominated for seven Academy Awards winning four including Best Actor for Gary Cooper. Set in New Mexico shot on location in Warnerville and Jamestown California. 7.25 x 5 inches. Fine. Pitts 1877. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 164374N.p.: Warner Brothers / Seven Arts 1969. Vintage French Moyenne poster for the 1968 Hammer film here under the French release title "Dracula et les femmes." The fourth entry in Hammer Film Productions' Dracula series and the third to feature Christopher Lee as the Count. Preceded by the 1966 film "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" directed by Terence Fisher and followed by the 1970 film "Taste the Blood of Dracula" directed by Peter Sasdy. A monsignor exorcises Dracula's castle unwittingly resurrecting the Count who proceeds to prey on the monsignor's beautiful niece and friends. 23 x 31.25 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good plus with a 4.25 inch closed tear to the upper right side and starting at the center and far right creases. Warner Brothers / Seven Arts unknown books
1973ref. 146856Rome: Audiovisual Editorial Programs 1973. Treatment script for an unproduced thirteen-part documentary series. Laid in with the script is a prospective budget for the film in English and an overview of the film in Italian as well as a typed letter from producer Sam Marx to casting agent Paul Kohner with manuscript ink annotations likely written by Kohner. Screenwriter George A. Vicas was best known for his documentary films for television especially for his involvement in the 1963 film "The Kremlin" notable for being the first time an American film crew was allowed to enter and record footage of Soviet Russia's government. "The Peoples of the USS.R." was intended to follow in its footsteps with each episode focusing on a different region of Russia. Set in the USSR. Green untitled wrappers. Title page present with credits for screenwriter GEORGE A. VICAS. 49 leaves with last page of text numbered XIII/45. Xerographic duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus with light offsetting on the front and rear wrappers bound internally with two gold brads. Audiovisual Editorial Programs unknown books
1977ref. 163611Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1977. Two vintage still photographs from the 1977 film. The film that started a multibillion dollar media empire pun intended which now includes ten additional live action films animated shows novels comic books video games and countless tons of officially licensed merchandise with no signs of slowing down. Winner of six Academy Awards nominated for four more including Best Picture Best Director Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Alec Guinness. Set a long time ago in a galaxy far far away shot on location in California Arizona Mexico Guatemala Tunisia and the UK. Both photos 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1974ref. 160750Burbank CA: Warner Brothers 1974. Collection of 43 vintage studio still photographs from the 1974 film. An unusual and prescient sci-fi thriller that was poorly distributed in the US but over time counted Stanley Kubrick and Terrence Malick among its admirers. Actor George Segal in a serious against-type role is a scientist who agrees to an experimental treatment wherein a tiny computer is implanted in his head to help control violent tendencies. The computer malfunctions probably Windows-based and he becomes a psychotic killer. When Mike Kaplan a Warner Bros international marketing executive attempted to override Warner Bros' decision not to release the film in Britain he sought Kubrick's help. After explaining the situation and how the film required a different marketing campaign Kubrick interrupted with "I've already seen it and it's terrific." The director Terrence Malick wrote to Hodges expressing how much he loved watching the film saying "I have just come from seeing The Terminal Man and want you to know what a magnificent overwhelming picture it is. You achieve moods that I've never experienced in the movies before though it's only in hope of finding them that I keep going. Your images make me understand what an image is not a pretty picture but something that should pierce one through like an arrow and speak in a language all its own." 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus lightly curled at the edges and some with light creasing and wear to the finish. Warner Brothers unknown books
1982ref. 166658Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1982. Revised Final Draft script for the fourteenth episode of the second season of the 1981-1986 ABC television series printed on pink leaves which aired on February 2 1983. Copy belonging to stunt person Nick Dimitri with Dimitri's stamp on the front wrapper and first leaf. Laid in are three Call Sheets one with an attached map and directions to a location shoot. Created by Glen A. Larson for ABC "The Fall Guy" starred Lee Majors Douglas Barr and Heather Thomas as Hollywood stunt performers who moonlight as bounty hunters. The show premiered on November 4 1982 and aired for five seasons and 112 episodes before ending on May 2 1986. In this episode Colt Majors and Howie Barr pose as millionaires aboard a cruise ship who with Jody's Thomas help hope to ensnare a jewel thief who has had plastic surgery to disguise her looks unaware she is also the target of an insurance investigator and her former accomplice. Red titled wrappers noted as REVISED FINAL on the front wrapper dated September 3 1982. Title page present dated September 3 1982 noted as REVISED FINAL with credits for screenwriter Lou Shaw. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered 57. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 9/8/82. Pages Very Good plus with light foxing along the top edge and on the extremities of the first leaf wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
1979ref. 166713Universal City: Universal Studios 1979. Two Draft scripts for the third episode of the first season both copies belonging to actress Christina Cummings who played the character Nancy Duvall. The episode aired on NBC on May 10 1979. Laid in is a gathering of 20 green revision pages dated 2/15/79 four xerographically duplicated revision pages dated 2/17/79 and an eight-page xerographically duplicated shooting schedule. The first of the two Draft scripts printed on pink leaves with blue revision pages has Cummings' name written on the top of the title page and manuscript marker annotations on six dog-eared pages including her name adjacent to her character's circled name on the cast page here as "Kathy Duvall." The second of the Draft scripts is printed on yellow leaves with manuscript marker and ink annotations on six dog-eared pages with her character's name here changed to "Nancy Duvall." Produced at the height of the CB radio and trucking craze of the late 1970's "B.J. and the Bear" was created by Glean A. Larson and Christopher Crow and starred Greg Evigan as Billie Joe "B.J." McKay a freelance trucker who travels the highways of the US with his pet chimpanzee Bear. The series premiered on October 4 1978 and aired for three seasons and 46 episodes ending on May 9 1981. In this episode B.J. and the Bear drive two coffins from Transylvania to Los Angeles from San Francisco as a publicity stunt for a movie during a dangerously stormy night and encounter a strange caretaker played by John Carradine. Featuring Danny Glover in his television debut. Pink Draft script: Front wrapper integral with title page dated February 5 1979 with credits for screenwriter Michael Sloan. 70 leaves with last page of text numbered 67. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue revision pages throughout dated 2/8/79. Pages Very Good plus with the title page detached bound with two gold brads. Yellow Draft script: Front wrapper integral with title page dated February 5 1978 with credits for screenwriter Michael Sloan. 69 leaves with last page of text numbered 66. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Very Good bound with two gold brads. Universal Studios unknown books
1943ref. 152570Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1943. Vintage press photograph of actors Glenn Ford and Marguerite Chapman from the 1943 film. Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. During WWII a new destroyer fails its sea trials and is assigned to mail runs but nevertheless is forced to engage in combat against Japanese planes and a submarine. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1968ref. 152562Beverly Hills CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer MGM 1968. Vintage reference photograph from the 1968 film showing actors Jim Brown Diahann Carroll Julie Harris Ernest Borgnine Warren Oates Jack Klugman and Don Sutherland. Mimeo snipe to the verso. Based on the 1966 Parker novel "The Seventh" by Donald E. Westlake writing as Richard Stark. A gang of thieves begins to fall apart when half a million dollars stolen from the Los Angeles Coliseum goes missing. Set and shot on location in Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Grant US. Lee The Heist Film. Silver and Ward Neo-Noir. Spicer US Neo-Noir. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM] unknown books
1947ref. 148425Los Angeles: Allied Artists 1947. Vintage US lobby card from the 1947 film noir. With a few brief annotations to the verso. Based on the 1937 novel following a small-town racketeer who suffers a mental breakdown when his turf is threatened by a ruthless sinister gangster. Set in the fictional boardwalk town of Neptune Beach Brooklyn. 14 x 11 inches. Very Good with a two-inch tear to the top edge and light toning and two tape reinforcements to the top and bottom edges of the verso. Allied Artists unknown books
1975ref. 161667N.p.: Rainbow Distributors 1975. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1975 sexploitation film. One photograph with a provenance stamp on the verso. Three escaped mental patients break into a private girls' school with bad intentions unaware that the girls' curriculum includes wrestling and karate. Shot on location in Santa Barbara California. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. Rainbow Distributors unknown books
1970ref. 161589N.p.: Grove Press 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1967 German-Polish film. Rare. Based on the 1961 novella by Günter Grass the second book in the Danzig Trilogy and sequel to his 1959 novel "The Tin Drum." A former gymnast returns to his home town Danzig and reflects on the fate of his classmate Joachim who disappeared during the war. Shot on location in Gdansk Gdynia and Sopot Poland. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus with a small closed tear in the top left margin. Grove Press unknown books
1971ref. 148175Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures 1971. Collection of ten vintage French color lobby cards from the 1971 film. Hal Ashby's classic love story between the young suicidal Harold But Cort and the exuberant 80-year-old Maude Ruth Gordon. Selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1997. Set in and shot on location in California. 9 x 11.25 inches. Near Fine. Eureka! 83. Criterion Collection 608. Paramount Pictures unknown books
1980ref. 166547Beverly Hills CA: A Neila Production 1980. A Second Draft script here under the working title "Why Are They Stealing My Girlfriend" and a Shooting Draft script here under the working title "Love on the Run" for the 1980 television film which aired on ABC on September 26 1980. Second Draft script with discreet manuscript marker and ink annotations on seventeen pages primarily making grammatical corrections. Shooting Draft script with manuscript ink annotations on two pages circling the dialog for the character "Uglier." A young couple Deborah Raffin and Jeff Conaway find themselves in possession of top secret Russian documents including a plan for taking over the Middle East and become targets of the KBG CIA FBI and an entrepreneur who wants to use the Middle East plan to create a new video game called "Doom's Day." Featuring a vast cast of popular 1970s and 1980s television actors including Tom Bosley William Christopher Norman Fell Henry Gibson Adam West Pat Morita Don Rickles and others. Second Draft script: Orange titled wrappers noted as SECOND DRAFT on the front wrapper. Title page present noted as SECOND DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Stanley Ralph Ross. 104 leaves with last page of text numbered 102. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Shooting Draft script: Red titled Charles Fries Productions wrappers. Title page present dated April 24 1980 noted as SHOOTING DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Stanley Ralph Ross. 114 leaves with last page of text numbered 111. Mimeograph duplication rectos only with blue pink and green revision pages throughout dated variously between 4/30/80 and 5/9/80. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. A Neila Production unknown books
1984ref. 167114Los Angeles: Viacom 1984. Final Draft script for an unproduced television movie copy belonging to actor and stunt person Nick Dimitri with his shipping label stapled to the first leaf and his stamp on the front wrapper and the cast page with manuscript ink annotations on 26 pages most of which are dog-eared. Bound in following the script is a 23-page shooting schedule dated 2/24/84 a two-page stunt list a three page one-line schedule a two-page "location information" memo a two-page staff and crew list and a shooting locations contact list. Laid in is a call sheet dated 3-5-84 with a copy of a hand-drawn map of a shooting location and directions attached to the call sheet with a staple. The 106-page script found here 139 including production materials written by "Me and Mom" series creator Hal Sitowitz was likely intended as a television movie to precede the series which never aired. The production materials bound in after the script confirm the film was shot though we have found no record of a television film of the series ever being released. The pilot episode of the series "Me and Mom: A Killing in the Market" credited to screenwriter Marsha Miller was a standard 60-minute episode with an unrelated plotline and contained one crossover character from the script found here other than the three principle characters in the series that of limo driver Vince Galdor here Caladori played by Caitlyn Jenner Bruce Jenner as noted on the call sheets with the other characters in the script not present. Created by Sitowitz and starring Lisa Eibacher and Holland Taylor as Kate Morgan and her wealthy socialite mother Zena Hunnicutt respectively who open a private investigation service in San Francisco with the help of her late father's partner Lou played by James Earl Jones. The series premiered on ABC on April 5 1985 and aired for six episodes before ending on May 17 1985. Kate and her mother Zena with the help of Kate's late father's partner Lou decide to open a private investigation service in San Francisco when they are hired by Jerry Walden on the run from Frank Ying a former business partner who tried to kill him in Mexico. Titled goldenrod Viacom wrappers. Title page present dated January 26 1984 noted as FINAL DRAFT with credits for screenwriter Hal Sitowitz. 139 leaves with last page of text numbered 91. Xerographic duplication rectos only with blue pink and yellow revision pages throughout dated variously between 2/13/84 and 2/26/84. Pages Near Fine overall wrapper Very Good plus bound with two gold brads. Viacom unknown books
1970ref. 157629Munich: Romano Film 1970. Vintage borderless reference photograph of Rosemarie Lindt and Ingeborg Steinbach from the 1970 German film. Stamp of Romano Film on the verso. A man tries to set his daughter up with a suitable son-in-law a prospect so repulsive that it causes the daughter to flee to southern Germany. Shot on location in Baden. 5 x 7 inches. Near Fine. Romano Film unknown books
1968ref. 162604N.p.: International Film Artists 1968. Three vintage studio still photographs from the 1969 film here under the release title "The Women" also released under the titles "The Vixens" and "Friends and Lovers." Two photographs with provenance stamps on the versos. Bob slips to his death off a dam bridge. His wife Betty reconstructs recent events to the police flashing back to a series of trysts and couple swapping that have nothing to do with Bob's accident. Shot on location in Connecticut and New York. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus one photograph with a wax pencil annotation to the top right margin and a crease and a small closed tear in the bottom margin. International Film Artists unknown books
1973ref. 157664N.p.: N.p. 1973. Vintage borderless color reference photograph from the 1973 film. Based on the 1959 novel by John Buell about a police detective who uncovers the demonic force responsible for the death of a heroin-addicted sex worker. Set and shot on location in Montreal. 9.5 x 7.15 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1969ref. 161591N.p.: National Showmanship Films 1969. Three vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1965 Swedish film. One photograph with a provenance stamp on the verso. A group of women work together at a laundry when one begins to spread a rumor that the manager is a lesbian and tried to seduce her which creates a dangerously explosive situation. Shot on location in Santa Fe New Mexico and Nacka Sweden. 8 x 10 inches. Light edgewear else Near Fine. National Showmanship Films unknown books
1953ref. 161494Rome: Compagnia Cinematografica Champion 1953. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1953 film. Based on the 1950 novel by Georges Arnaud. Henri-Georges Clouzot's breakthrough masterpiece a tense and literally volatile thriller. Four luckless Europeans are hired by an American oil company to drive two trucks of nitroglycerine through the South American wilderness to extinguish a fire in the oil fields. Winner of the Palme d'Or. Shot on location in Gard and Bouches-du-Rhone France. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus. Criterion Collection 36. Godard Histoires du cinema. Grant France. Rosenbaum 1000. Selby France. Compagnia Cinematografica Champion unknown books
1960ref. 160047N.p.: Le-Sac Productions 1960. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1960 film. Based on the career of 1930s outlaw Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd. Floyd's father is killed and the murderer is let off by the sheriff. He tries to get revenge on the sheriff leading him down a very long path including robbery and an affair with a married woman. Set in Oklahoma. 10 x 8 inches. One photograph Very Good plus one photograph Good with creasing and wear to the finish. Le-Sac Productions unknown books
1962ref. 172536Buckinghamshire England: Rank Productions 1962. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1962 film. With mimeo snipes affixed to the versos and with a Rank Productions stamp on the verso. Based on the 1924 novella by Herman Melville and the 1949 play by Louis O. Coxe and Robert H. Chapman. A British Naval ship during the Napoleonic Wars takes on a merchant sailor who is framed by the master-at arms for planning a mutiny. Nominated for one Academy Award. Shot on location in Valencia Spain and the Mediterranean Sea. 9.25 x 7.5 inches. Very Good plus with toning. Rank Productions unknown books
